call me manatee

Maker of art, lover of squishy sea cows. "Maybe I'm nervous. Or just socially awkward. I'm still figuring myself out." —the 13th Doctor

[tranthony]

grout white shark

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[hylianengineer]

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

[occasionalmanatees]

Occasional Manatee #22

I Love You All In Earnest, Manatee Nation

[callmemanatee]

Lilo from Lilo and Stitch reminds me of my early childhood self… but Richeh? Richeh is the first character I’ve seen who shows the very specific kind of defensiveness and withdrawal I developed as a preteen. A reluctance to try new things and a fear of losing even more of myself to others’ expectations, because my interests weren’t valued when I was younger.

I’m probably explaining this badly, but yeah… Richeh is me at age 9-12. Wish I’d had a Qifrey to guide me through it.

[callmemanatee]

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that if I were in a state with Medicaid expansion, I’d soon be kicked off Medicaid for working 64 hours a month instead of 80.

Despite also being on SSDI.

Despite having been on disability for more than a decade.

People will die because of this.

[ivy-michaels]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[ivy-michaels]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[callmemanatee]

Maybe I’m just old, but giving school children (especially elementary schoolers) laptops has always seemed counterproductive to me. I miss when the computer lived in the computer lab.

[callmemanatee]

Autistic people who study, have studied, or work in the arts or humanities, please reblog or comment.

I’m tired of the “STEM is inherently more autistic than the humanities” narrative. Plus, I’m feeling a bit miffed by a Threads commenter’s claim that emphasizing the need for scientists to understand the humanities is ableist toward autistic scientists.

[intuitive-revelations]

Tales of the TARDIS | Reunion Hugs

"We never really did this sort of thing, did we?" "We do now!"

[lesbianbillpotts]

[ID: Six gifs of Tales of the TARDIS, showing several companions and incarnations of the Doctor hugging in the TARDIS. The Fifth Doctor and Tegan Jovanka, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, Clyde Langer and Jo Grant, Steven Taylor and Vicki Pallister, and the Seventh Doctor and Ace McShane, are all hugging each other tightly, most of them looking very emotional. End ID]

[ivy-michaels]

All these industries with shortages of workers and they can’t figure out why.

Im proposing the hypothesis that the reason we don’t have enough doctors/pilots/bus drivers/etc is that maybe, just maybe, having your entire industry function as a lifelong hazing ritual isn’t the best recruiting strategy.

[ivy-michaels]

Doctors are subject to 8 years of post-secondary education and are forced to work 48 hour shifts.

Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.

Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.

Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.

Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.

Work should not be designed to make you a miserable burnout and yet here we are.

[aviatrix-ash]

Airliner maintenance: 3rd shift forever never see sunlight, 12-15 hours shifts, miss every holiday ever, mandatory overtime all the time.

I make significantly less working on helis than I could be making rn on airliners, but I'm not built for that.. I don't think I'll ever take up another job in the lower 48 in my field.

[micoafterdark]

If they had video games quifrey would probably help the girls out on a tough level

I’m pretty sure this has been done before but I’ve been into soft stuff lately and this is based on that image of a mom helping her kids beat a hard level

I feel it kinda suits Agott to be kinda proud and sure of quifrey being able to solve a tough puzzle. They r all so sweet. I absolutely loved making Richeh she’s so babie. I hope I got the girls’ personalities right.

[callmemanatee]

Simon Baron-Cohen’s fake apology makes me furious… but do you know what makes me even angrier?

The number of autistic men I’ve seen defending him in comment sections, and saying the community “shouldn’t be so hard on him” because he was “a pioneer”. 🙄

If you, personally, weren’t harmed and erased by SBC’s nonsense… please, please shut up and let the many people who were be angry.

And maybe take a moment to think about how the “male = cold and logical = autism” fallacy limits you too.

[inkskinned]

my most ungrounded and unresearched fear is that so many companies are pushing AI in part because it builds them a pathway towards a subscription model for a huge number of things that should not be subscription, but theoretically could be:

do you want to talk to verizon's help desk because there's an error on your bill? to access a real agent, you have to pay for Verizon Access+, only 5.99 a month.

want to filter out all the fake job postings from the real ones? subscribe to Indeed: Advanced Tactics and only verified postings will appear on your dash.

sick of the infinite ai slop? buy Google Premium; it'll automatically detect ai within a site and gives it a credibility score. with premium plus, you can shuffle high-credibility results to the top.

do you want a "luxury" experience? well, you'd have to pay for that luxury, and since the company sure doesn't want to pay its employees; the cost would fall to the consumer.

when automation has made every experience unpleasant; the experience of genuine humanity will be commodified.

[marzipanandminutiae]

This is already happening – one of the softwares used by a museum I work at only lets you talk to a human help agent if you have their premium subscription. It's such bullshit

[inkskinned]

the fact you are not the only one in these notes saying "no this is already happening; i have to pay money to speak to a representative" is just... really awesome! you said a software used by museums is doing this shit? okay! great! wonderful!! anybody know where i can scream

[rhaegarzeppeli]

I started working at a company FIVE days ago where the "our purpose" description says they HAVE to develop subscription based products because only that will continuously make Number Go Up and only this way can they keep raising salaries. (whatever small percentage that means.)

I don't know how to express how close we are to figuring it out. Everything is a subscription now and each year the prices go up, so I need a higher salary each year because of inflation, so my workplace has to make everything a subscription for others...

I feel like we could just like. Break this hellcycle of capitalism but hey. What do I know

[callmemanatee]

More PCE fanart. Lithops has ascended, and Marlo isn’t impressed.

[wetheurban]

Today I’m thinking about Black families whose ancestors built this country. Indigenous communities who were here before it. Immigrants who crossed oceans and borders believing in its promise. And everyone still waiting to feel safe, seen, and free.

[cronenburger]

David Shrigley's 2022 original painting Untitled (This Huge Cat). Buy it here.

[princessofharte]

We interrupt your program tonight to bring you some BREAKING NEWS. A giant brushbuddy has been spotted by the summer breeding grounds of wild myrphons. Locals are advised to stay away while the witches on scene address this massive creature.

[bemused-writer]

Witch Hat Atelier Valentine Art

I thought it might be fun to completely over-analyze the Valentine art that Shirahama put together for several of the characters to see what we might glean. I’m including the art in the post since I couldn’t find anything on her Twitter account saying not to, but if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know and I’ll just include links. ^^

The first one is Coco! She has a lot of Valentine’s hearts, which makes perfect sense. Just about everyone around her holds her in high regard, even Agott, who took a little longer to come around, but once she did there was no turning back. Furthermore, Coco doesn’t withhold her affections from anyone, so there’s lots to go around. The hearts themselves are located within her witch’s hat, which also makes sense. What does Coco love most in this series? Magic, naturally! Our resident brushbuddy is also located within her hat and I think it’s safe to say she cares a great deal about it as well. In other words, her Valentine picture depicts her love of magic and the innocence that surrounds her despite the hardships she’s endured.

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